Unix recap for week 13/2025

From 24/3/2025 to 30/3/2025

Newsletter sent every monday with a recap of articles, projects and tutorials from previous week.

Articles #

The Unix Haters Handbook [pdf] 799 comments in 10 discussions
Convert Linux to Windows 474 comments in 2 discussions
Manjaro Linux: Making Arch Linux More Accessible 299 comments in 7 discussions
"A tremendous feature of open source software is that people can just build stuff and don’t have to justify themselves." 283 comments in 3 discussions
After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt 282 comments in 3 discussions
Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility 217 comments in 4 discussions
Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible 210 comments in 2 discussions
Triforce: a microphone array beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops 208 comments in 1 discussion
HP is interested in creating a SteamOS handheld, says Windows is a “struggle” 205 comments in 1 discussion
Save 90% on Cities: Skylines on Steam. It is a must buy for this price if you ask me 201 comments in 13 discussions
Self-contained Python scripts with uv 188 comments in 3 discussions
Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15 169 comments in 1 discussion
EU OS: Fedora KDE-based proof-of-concept OS for the EU public sector 🇪🇺 157 comments in 4 discussions
A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop [LWN.net] 157 comments in 3 discussions
Conversion or reinstall with btrfs 153 comments in 8 discussions

Releases #

Linux 6.14

Projects #

vramfs: VRAM based file system for Linux 382 comments in 7 discussions
landrun: Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock 195 comments in 3 discussions
Genshin Impact 5.5 report. 144 comments in 9 discussions
Quick Tip!: Improve the Desktop experience by forcing higher idle states on NVidia GPUs / Get more FPS with light overclock using the LACT Tool! 120 comments in 9 discussions
nVibrant - Digital Vibrance for nvidia under Wayland 47 comments in 2 discussions
GitHub - SAT-R/sa2: A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2 - a GameBoy Advance game written in C 40 comments in 2 discussions
Vboard, virtual keyboard with Wayland compatibility 12 comments in 4 discussions
Karui, an 84kb android todo list app with unix like aesthetics, made with AlpineJS. It's open source on github with reproducible builds and also available to download from fdroid 2 comments in 1 discussion
Bricked display after trying "plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn" 2 comments in 1 discussion
Sweet looking lockscreen for Linux system

Videos #

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